"A fine of 100 rubles? For complicity in the death of a child? Are you serious?" Yekaterinburg residents are outraged by the sentence handed down to a child protection agency employee for forgery.
Leading specialist of the guardianship and trusteeship department Evgeniya Voznesenskaya should have I checked the living conditions of Daler Bobiyev, who had been raised in a foster family since he was three. However, I didn't do so.
Specifically, in December 2022, instead of visiting the child in the foster family, Voznesenskaya simply called his guardian, Veronika Naumova, and falsified the inspection report. The document stated that "the maintenance, upbringing, and education of the child in her care meets the requirements established by law."
In fact, the six-year-old boy was already dead by that time: according to the investigation, Naumov beat up with a shoehorn and drowned him in the bathtub "based on national hatred."
The inaction of the child protection specialist allowed Naumova to hide the boy's body in the garage and continue to receive payments from the budget for his maintenance for another six months.
Everything came to light only in June of last year, when an announcement about Daler’s disappearance appeared on the pages of LizaAlert and a search was launched out several thousand residents of Yekaterinburg.
Voznesenskaya faced up to four years in prison for forging documents, and the prosecutor demanded a year and a half in a penal colony. However, Judge Roman Shevchenko chosen The minimum penalty is a fine of 100 thousand rubles.
Within hours, residents left hundreds of outraged comments under the news about the verdict.
"A 100 ruble fine? For complicity in a child's death? Are you serious?" people complain. "At the very least, in addition to the fine, they could have disqualified her from holding any civil service positions for a couple of years."
The trial of Veronika Naumova's guardian will begin on August 26.